When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone.
Acting
Michelle Williams silently screaming for two hours.
Direction
Moodysson at his most politically furious and formally controlled.
Writing
Dialogue so awkward it physically hurts. Intentionally.
Director
Lukas Moodysson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moodysson made this after the birth of his third child, explicitly interrogating his own privilege as a wealthy European father. The film was his self-indictment.
Critics savaged it at Cannes 2009 as 'poverty tourism,' but Filipino diaspora writers later reclaimed Gloria's storyline as rare mainstream visibility for overseas worker exploitation. The debate rages.
DK
DE
